Lee sets sight on Lanka series

Injury-prone Australian pacer Brett Lee wants to return to the national squad when Sri Lanka tour Australia later this month for a Twenty20 and a three-match ODI series.

The 33-year-old paceman, who has suffered a series of injuries over the last one-and-half-years, last represented his country in a one-dayer in India in October, 2009. He will make his return from a six-month injury layoff for Mosman against Bankstown in the Sydney grade competition on Saturday.

"I thought it would be nice to ease back in to a grade game, and I mean that with all due respect," Lee said ahead of his first club appearance in six years.

"I will try and play a couple of one-dayers for the Blues over the next couple of weeks and then look to try and play against Sri Lanka towards the end of this month," Lee said.

However, Lee ruled out his return to Test. "When I say I don't want to be part of Test cricket any more, it's not because I don't like it. It's the time of my life where I want a bit of change through body, through lifestyle," Lee said.

"I've loved every single moment of Test cricket, but you have to draw a line in the sand somewhere, you won't be seeing me making that (Test) comeback, definitely not," said Lee, who retired from the five-day version earlier this year.

Australia will play Sri Lanka in the T20 on October 31 at Perth and then three ODIs early next month.

The Australian's career has been plagued by fitness problems, ranging from a side strain and elbow surgery to a broken thumb and a forearm injury.

But the injury problems notwithstanding, Lee made it clear that he was not ready to cut down the speed from his bowling.

"Definitely not, the way that I've always bowled and the way that I approach my cricket is that I've always gone flat out," Lee said.

"People have said to me 'how can you keep going with ankle surgery and 12 operations later?', I suppose it's my character, I see it as being a challenge," he added.

"I've been training really hard (doing) fitness in the gym, fitness away from the gym, bowling in the nets. It all sounds good but at the end of the day it's how it feels when you go out there and play competitive cricket."

Lee also said that the 2011 World Cup would be a fitting way to end his career, but did not rule out playing Twenty20 and ODI cricket beyond that.

"I'm not going to put a timeline on when I want to stop," he said.

"If it (the end) comes now and I don't bowl a ball ever again for Australia, well, yes I'll be disappointed but to me it's not the end of the world."